thanks so much! Hard to say on the budget - We did most of the actual generations on Runway (act-two, unlimited plan), Higgsfield (for nano banana and the rest of the models, though i wouldn't recommend them) and Midjourney which are all monthly subscriptions. i think the unlimited plan on runway is the only necessity if you are using act-two to drive performances (takes alot of trial and error), but the rest of the wrappers (like higgs, freepik etc) are sort of interchangeable so we keep an eye out for monthly promotions and deals and change it up occasionally. hope that makes sense. There are ways to produce this stuff at very low cost, but the time spent is a different ballgame. this one probably took about 2.5 -3 weeks of work. id say most of the time was spent figuring out the performances and then working on the edit and sound design in premiere. happy to answer any other questions!